In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Mongabay
Dec 6, 2017, 10:59 pm146 pts
TABA PADANG, Indonesia — Yoyon remembers being elected head of his village back in 2010, here on the southwestern coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, following a spate of arrests of his fellow villagers. Those arrested were accused of farming in Bukit Daun, a protected forest. The last arrests that…

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